The Early Miocene Critical Zone at Karungu, Western Kenya: An Equatorial, Open Habitat with Few Primate Remains
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1 Terrestrial Paleoclimatology Research Group, Department of Geosciences, Baylor University, Waco, TX, United States, 2 Messel Research and Mammalogy Department, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, 3 Department of Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States, 4 Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
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